Basic tracking of the initial version took place at [[Prince]]'s [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, in mid-April 1982.

Basic tracking of the initial version took place at [[Prince]]'s [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, in mid-April 1982.

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[[Prince]] mixed the song on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/April 28|28 April 1982]] (on the same day as recording [[How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore]], a day after an original, unused recording of [[Raspberry Beret]] and four days before [[Automatic]]) at [[Sunset Sound]] in Hollywood, California. He then proceeded to record the song over the next couple of days resulting in the version that was released on [[Album: 1999|1999]]

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[[Prince]] mixed the song on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/April 28|28 April 1982]] (on the same day as recording [[How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore]], a day after an original, unused recording of [[Raspberry Beret]] and four days before [[Automatic]]) at [[Sunset Sound]] in Hollywood, California. He then proceeded to record the song over the next couple of days resulting in the version that was released on [[Album: 1999|1999]].

Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) is the seventh track on Prince's fifth album 1999, and, eleven months after the album's release, it was included as the b-side of the album's fourth single, Automatic, released in Australia only.